Articles

smh.com.au
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She tweets on the train during the long trip to work across Sydney, about the weather, or the threat of bushfires or the joy of homemade banana toffee and pie crust ice cream. About the "filthy immigrant scum" living in the city's west or the women politicians she dubs "dirty whores". She's written worse online – some of which cannot be printed here. About feminist "slags" and "sluts". About a Muslim cleric she reckons "needs to be dropped in the ocean and forgotten about".

brisbanetimes.com.au
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Slain British backpacker Mia Ayliffe-Chung hating having to leave the Gold Coast to work on farms in Queensland's rural north, according to her former Australian boyfriend Jamison Stead. "She didn't initially want to go but we told her it would be an adventure and experience, so she saw the bright side in the opportunity," he told Fairfax Media.

smh.com.au
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Comedian Paul Foot. Photo: Vince Caligiuri PAUL FOOT Sydney Comedy Festival The Comedy Store, April 20. Until April 21 ★★★★ "Time now for my madness," screeches Paul Foot, strutting about the stage like an aged rooster with confidence issues condemned to pass his dwindling years in penury within a cockerel sanctuary run by actor Pierce Brosnan.

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given user

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Hashtags (e.g. #sxsw, #london2012)

Bio details (e.g. vegan, Olympics, father)

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AND

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+. For example, ensure each result contains both Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg by
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OR

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are used.) For example, search for democrat OR republican to find results that refer to
Democrats and/or Republicans.

NOT

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example, searching Disney will yield results about the Walt Disney Company as well as Walt Disney
World Resort. To exclude mentions of Disney World, search for Disney -World or Disney
NOT World.

Phrases

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find results about smartphones excluding Apple's iPhone 4S by searching smartphone -"iPhone
4s".

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Combining operators

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Disneyland, search for ("disney world" OR disneyland) AND fun.

Asterisk

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Near

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